Computer freezing on acpi events! [solved]

Ineluki12 · Last edited by Ineluki12 on Mon May 09, 2005 4:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

Recently, I did some things to my laptop (installed gnome, removed support for devfs, etc...) and I'm not sure what caused this issue. Whenever the power cord is pulled or insterted, or a battery removed, the computer will freeze.

Now, the reason I started this thread in Desktop Environments and not Kernel and Hardware is b/c it only occurs when viewing my Gnome session or GDM. If I kill the GUI alltogether, it works fine.

I configured power management as prescribed in the power management guide on the gentoo website. I used to run fluxbox, rox, and a few others before switching to Gnome, but I'm not sure Gnome is the culprit.

I tried a couple of other tests. I logged into an X session and then switched to another console. I pulled the power and got this message:

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

Looks like your gnome config is a little bit confused.

Never had the a problem like this, but my first shot would be to rename all directories .gnome* in your home directory to .gnome*_old or something and start your next session with a clean install. Might not help, but Imho it's worth the two minutes :lol:

Ineluki12 · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:

Are you saying to rename all of the .gnome folders and reemerge gnome? Okie dokie, I'll give it a try. I think my config might have been messed up b/c I emerged gnome-light, followed by almost every package that installs when one emerges gnome. I just didn't want a few things, but I think this may have caused things to go awry.
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Ineluki12 · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

That didn't work, but I've isolated the problem to GDM. After I booted, I dropped to another console, killed the GDM process, switched to console 1, logged in as myself, and ran startx. After Gnome came up, I pulled the plug and ran on batteries. My mouse jumped a little bit and the panel volume control and XMMS died (so it's obviously not just GDM), but the screen was fine. So, I remerged GDM, rebooted, logged in and Gnome came up. After about 5 seconds, my screen went nuts without me even pulling the power.
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fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

I meant rename the directories and logout and make a new session loging in. Sorry for that missunderstanding :roll:

Ineluki12 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

I realized that the freeze is only happening on power-oriented acpi events, like adding/removing the batteries and power cord. Things like closing the lid weren't freezing X. In other words, X was bombing when switching runlevels. So, I went to the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml and noticed several things had changed. Then I remembered updating my system before installing Gnome, and that might have replaced my old version of acpid but not the setup I had done. So, I followed the guide again and eveything worked

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